Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) postponed an immigration crackdown operation in Aurora, Colorado claiming knowledge of the effort had spread throughout the community and agents could be affected.

WASHINGTON • The U.S. military said Tuesday it will allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain migrants at Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, further widening the Pentagon’s role in

Democratic U.S. Rep. Jason Crow on Wednesday denounced reports that a military base in Aurora would be used as part of the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts.

U.S. officials told CBS News that the Denver area is among the next targets for stepped-up immigration arrest operations by ICE.

Undocumented immigrants have rights during arrests, a local hotline to detect ICE raids and other tools to handle deportations.

The U.S. military is providing facilities at Buckley Space Force Base in Colorado for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to process detained migrants. That's according to a spokesperson for the U.

A Colorado military installation is now being used as a holding and processing facility for detained migrants as the Trump administration ramps up mass arrests across the country.

Drug Enforcement Administration officials said many of the immigrants were connected to Tren de Aragua and are in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.

A Venezuelan migrant arrested Tuesday during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in New York City is a member of the Tren de Aragua gang, Fox News has learned.

Also Tuesday, Colorado Public Radio and CBS4 were among outlets that reported the U.S. military was preparing space at Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora for staging, processing and temporary holding of “criminal aliens” detained in ICE operations, according to a U.S. Northern Command statement.

Two illegal aliens tied to Mexican cartels and approximately 130,000 fentanyl pills, heroin, cocaine and meth were discovered during a drug bust in the Denver, Colorado, area.